The 2020 Oscars winners have been officially announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2020’s awards season was shorter than usual, with the Oscars and Golden Globes (the first major film and TV awards show in any given year) only taking place a month apart. This was also the second year in a row the Academy decided to go with a hostless show, after earning a warmer reception and an uptick in ratings from their previous Oscars ceremony in 2019.
Compared to the tumultous run-up to last year’s ceremony (where the Academy kept making one faux pas after another), this year’s lead-in was much calmer overall. Of course, it still had its fair share of issues, from the Academy’s failure to nominate a single woman for Best Director to the general lack of diversity among the nominated films when it comes to race and gender. A number of the more prominent snubbed movies and artists would go on to garner recognition at last night’s 2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards instead, including The Farewell and Uncut Gems. In a sense, that served to balance the scales a little heading into the Oscars broadcast.
The full list of 2020 Oscars winners has now been unveiled. In a surprising but welcome turn, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite took home the Oscars for Best Picture and Director (making it the first ever non-english language film to win Best Picture), in addition to winning for International Feature Film and Original Screenplay. Sam Mendes’ WWI thriller 1917, which was favored to win Best Picture heading into Oscar night, also took home multiple trophies for Visual Effects, Sound Mixing, and Roger Deakins’ Cinematography. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Ford v. Ferrari similarly landed a pair of wins, as did Joker, taking the prizes for Best Actor (marking Joaquin Phoenix’s first win) and Score. Altogether, the Academy recognized several movies in both the technical and non-technical categories over the course of the Oscar broadcast.
Best Picture
- Ford v. Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women Marriage Story 1917 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood WINNER: Parasite
Best Director
- The Irishman, Martin Scorsese Joker, Todd Phillips 1917, Sam Mendes Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino WINNER: Parasite, Bong Joon-ho
Best Actor
- Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Adam Driver, Marriage Story WINNER: Joaquin Phoenix, Joker Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes
Best Actress
- Cynthia Erivo, Harriet Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story Saoirse Ronan, Little Women Charlize Theron, Bombshell WINNER: Renée Zellweger, Judy
Best Adapted Screenplay
- The Irishman, Steven Zaillian WINNER: Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi Joker, Todd Phillips and Scott Silver Little Women, Greta Gerwig The Two Popes, Anthony McCarten
Best Original Screenplay
- Knives Out, Rian Johnson Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach 1917, Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino WINNER: Parasite, Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-wan
Best Supporting Actor
- Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes Al Pacino, The Irishman Joe Pesci, The Irishman WINNER: Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Supporting Actress
- Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell WINNER: Laura Dern, Marriage Story Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit Florence Pugh, Little Women Margot Robbie, Bombshell
Best Original Song
- “I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away”, Toy Story 4; music and lyric by Randy Newman WINNER: “I’m Gonna Love Me Again”, Rocketman; music by Elton John, lyric by Bernie Taupin “I’m Standing With You”, Breakthrough; music and lyric by Diane Warren “Into the Unknown”, Frozen II; music and lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez “Stand Up”, Harriet; music and lyric by Joshua Brian Campbell and Cynthia Erivo
Best Animated Feature
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World; Dean DeBlois, Bradford Lewis, and Bonnie Arnold I Lost My Body; Jérémy Clapin and Marc Du Pontavice Klaus; Sergio Pablos, Jinko Gotoh, and Marisa Roman Missing Link; Chris Butler, Arianne Sutner, and Travis Knight WINNER: Toy Story 4; Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen, and Jonas Rivera
Best Original Score
- WINNER: Joker, Hildur Guðnadóttir Little Women, Alexandre Desplat Marriage Story, Randy Newman 1917, Thomas Newman Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, John Williams
Best International Feature Film
- Corpus Christi (Poland) Honeyland (North Macedonia) Les Misérables (France) Pain and Glory (Spain) WINNER: Parasite (South Korea)
Best Cinematography
- The Irishman, Rodrigo Prieto Joker, Lawrence Sher The Lighthouse, Jarin Blaschke WINNER: 1917, Roger Deakins Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Robert Richardson
Best Costume Design
- The Irishman, Sandy Powell and Christopher Peterson Jojo Rabbit, Mayes C. Rubeo Joker, Mark Bridges WINNER: Little Women, Jacqueline Durran Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Arianne Phillips
Best Sound Editing
- WINNER: Ford v. Ferrari Joker 1917 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Best Sound Mixing
- Ad Astra Ford v. Ferrari Joker WINNER: 1917 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
- WINNER: Bombshell Joker Judy Maleficent: Mistress of Evil 1917
Best Live-Action Short
- Brotherhood Nefta Football Club WINNER: The Neighbors’ Window Saria A Sister
Best Animated Short
- Dcera (Daughter) WINNER: Hair Love Kitbull Memorable Sister
Best Visual Effects
- Avengers: Endgame The Irishman The Lion King WINNER: 1917 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Best Film Editing
- WINNER: Ford v. Ferrari, Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker The Irishman, Thelma Schoonmaker Jojo Rabbit, Tom Eagles Joker, Jeff Groth Parasite, Jinmo Yang
Best Production Design
- The Irishman Jojo Rabbit 1917 WINNER: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Parasite
Best Documentary Short
- In the Absence WINNER: Learning to Skateboard in a War Zone (If You’re a Girl) Life Overtakes Me St. Louis Superman Walk Run Cha-Cha
Best Documentary Feature
- WINNER: American Factory The Cave The Edge of Democracy For Sama Honeyland
